practicalities of blogging

[Claire Conant]

I know Blogger has people do that security word feature. It's set up in the 
options, I believe. However, I promise you, with the hosted Wordpress I have 
not had spam issues. I think in the more than a year I've been blogging I've 
had to deal with - literally - three spam comments that made it past the 
Akismet spam blocker. It's a non-issue for me.

Being required to enter that weird word code doesn't bother me. Now, 
however, Blogger has a feature that once you've commented and entered your 
Wordpress, Typepad, or other blog information, it remembers you and you 
don't have to keep doing it. You just enter your URL. At least for the 
dozens of blogs I visit, that's how it works.

For the visually impaired, I have no recommendations.

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From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin.McLauchlan at safenet-inc.com>
> What about that security feature that forces a commenter to read a
> distorted image of a word, then type in the exact word, as an
> anti-spamming provision?
> Is that available as a standard WordPress feature? Or is it a feature
> that must be supplied by the hosting service? Or is it just a plug-in
> freebie? Or not available?
> Other?
>
> I know I recently saw it on a blog (didn't pay attention if it was a
> WordPress blog) and thought it a smart idea, copied from other
> security/authentication situations I'd previously encountered.
>
> And while I'm on that sub-topic, are any of you dear readers offended by
> being forced to indulge measures like that, or do you accept it as a
> minor inconvenience, well worth the trouble to keep the spammers down?
>
> Also, what alternative should be provided for the visually impaired?
>